Polling District No. 26b, Nova Scotia (1891 census)
Polling District No. 26b was a census subdivision in Nova Scotia, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 986. The administrative centroid was at approximately 44.805°N, 62.741°W.
Population
In 1891, Polling District No. 26b had a population of 986: 528 male and 458 female residents.
Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)
Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.
Earlier boundary forms
- In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Pope's Harbor, 1881 (46.0% share).
Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891
In the 1891 census, Polling District No. 26b shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1891
The 1891 census recorded 70 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.
Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 986 total population, 528 males, 458 females, 274 married persons, 142 families, 137 married females, 137 married males, 32 widowed persons, 17 widowed females, 15 widowed males, 6.90 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)
Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 680 single persons under 18, 376 single males under 18, 304 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)
Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 986 persons who are not French Canadian. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)
Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 139 occupied houses, 138 houses, 138 houses built of wood, 131 houses of 1 story, 56 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 29 houses of 5 rooms, 28 houses of 4 rooms, 16 houses of 3 rooms, 10 uninhabited houses, 7 houses of 2 stories, 6 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 2 houses of 2 rooms, 1 dwellings that are vessels and shanties, 1 houses of over 15 rooms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)
Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 11,400 acres of land in farms, 10,383 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 9,447 pounds of homemade butter, 1,949 pounds of fine wool produced on farms, 1,683 bushels of potatoes, 1,493 chickens, 1,017 acres of improved land in farms, 799 sheep, 564 acres of farmland in pasture, 475 tons of hay, 433 acres of farmland under crops, 360 acres of hay crops, 339 geese, 336 bushels of turnips, 209 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 167 other cattle, 160 milk cows, 142 occupants of farms, 103 farm occupants who own their land, 65 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 56 swine, 54 sheep slaughtered or sold, 48 oxen, 41 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 40 cattle killed or sold, 38 farm occupants who rent their land, 27 ducks, 27 swine slaughtered or sold, 20 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 20 horses aged over 3 years, 16 turkeys, 14 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 13 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 12 acres of potatoes, 9 bushels of beans, 9 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 5 bushels of oats, 5 horses aged 3 years and under, 3 acres of turnips, 1 employees on farms, 1 other fowl. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
NS034021— year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file - Persistent place ID:
PLACE_NS034021— computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years - Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.
Sources
Census tabulations from the 1891 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.
Cite this page
Clifford, J. (2026). "Polling District No. 26b, Nova Scotia (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/ns/polling-district-no-26b-ns034021-1891/.